Lloyd George Government
The Lloyd George government was a coalition government under Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George that ruled the United Kingdom from December 1916 to October 1922. It was created during the First World War after the resignation of the previous Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith on December 5, 1916, which was followed by part of the Liberal Party in the opposition .
The coalition continued after the end of the war, but the balance of power shifted significantly towards the conservatives after the general election of December 1918 . The government faced several problematic situations in the post-war period, including the peace treaties with the Central Powers being signed during their tenure and the Irish question being resolved with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Lloyd George's personal commitment to the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish War was, among other things, undoing, which was demonstrated by the Chanak crisis of 1922. After several scandals in which the head of government was involved, and due to the increasing confidence of the Conservatives in being able to form a government alone, most recently at a backbencher meeting at the Carlton Club on October 19, 1922, Lloyd George stepped as Prime Minister and the Conservative party leader Austen Chamberlain , whereupon Andrew Bonar Law took over both posts.
Government formation
The previous government, Asquith's second government , in office since May 1915 , had suffered from several crises during 1916: on the one hand, the Irish question came back on the agenda with the Easter Rising of April 1916 in Dublin, and on the other hand, the British warfare suffered that year several setbacks - with the huge losses of the Battle of the Somme as the most obvious stumbling block. This battle and its assessment by the British public raised the question of how the war, if carried on according to previous methods, would be won. The opposition to Prime Minister Asquith within the government crystallized around the ambitious Secretary of War David Lloyd George, who seemed acceptable to the Conservatives as successor to Asquith, despite his earlier radical policies. Lloyd George and the conservative party leader Bonar Law met in early December 1916 to demand that the premier form a small, three-member committee for more effective warfare, chaired by Lloyd George and in which Asquith was not represented. Asquith reluctantly agreed, but withdrew it after two days, whereupon Lloyd George submitted his resignation. This resulted in the overthrow of the Asquith government. Asquith refused to serve under the Conservatives Bonar Law or Arthur Balfour in any government brought into play by the king as candidates for successor. As a result, Lloyd George was summoned to an audience on December 6th to receive the mandate to form a government.
The following liberal ministers, among others, were no longer represented in the new government:
- Reginald McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer, replaced by Bonar Law)
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (Lord President of the Council, replaced by Lord Curzon )
- Edward Gray (Secretary of State, replaced by Arthur Balfour)
- Herbert Samuel (Home Secretary, replaced by George Cave )
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, was the new Minister of War to succeed Lloyd George . Several new ministries were set up, including, for the first time, a Labor Ministry headed by a Labor politician.
War Cabinet
According to the proposals of Lloyd Georges and Bonar Laws, the actual leadership of the warfare was exercised by a committee that was known as the War Cabinet . In addition to Lloyd George, it included:
- Lord Curzon (Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords)
- Andrew Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons)
- Arthur Henderson (Minister without Portfolio)
- Lord Milner (Minister without Portfolio)
Changes during the existence of the War Cabinet (officially until October 31, 1919):
- George Nicoll Barnes replaced Arthur Henderson in May 1917
- Jan Christiaan Smuts became a Minister without Portfolio in the War Cabinet in June 1917
- Sir Edward Carson joined the War Cabinet as Non-Portfolio Minister in July 1917 and resigned in January 1918
- Austen Chamberlain replaced Lord Milner in April 1918 as Minister without Portfolio and member of the War Cabinet
- Sir Eric Geddes replaced Jan Christiaan Smuts as Minister without Portfolio and member of the War Cabinet in January 1919
List of public officials
(Cabinet ministers appear in bold .)
Office | Surname | Political party | Duration, if different | Remarks | |
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Prime Minister , First Lord of the Treasury |
David Lloyd George | Liberal | |||
Chancellor of the Exchequer | Andrew Bonar Law | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | also Leader of the House of Commons | |
Austen Chamberlain | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Sir Robert Horne | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Treasury Secretary of State | Sir Hardman Lever | Liberal | until May 19, 1919 | ||
Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | from June 18, 1917 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Hilton Young | Liberal | from April 21, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary for the Treasury | Lord Edmund Talbot | Conservative | until April 1, 1921 | joint chief whips of government in the House of Commons | |
Neil Primrose | Liberal | until March 2, 1917 | |||
Frederick Guest | Liberal | March 2, 1917 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Charles McCurdy | Liberal | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Leslie Wilson | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Lords of the Treasury | James Hope | Conservative | until January 27, 1919 | ||
John Pratt | Liberal | until August 8, 1919 | |||
Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | January 29 to June 18, 1917 | |||
James Parker | Labor | from January 29, 1917 | |||
Josiah Towyn Jones | Liberal | January 29, 1917 to July 4, 1922 | |||
Robert Sanders | Liberal | February 5, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | ennobled during his tenure as a baronet | ||
Sir Godfrey Collins | Liberal | August 8, 1919 to February 10, 1920 | |||
William Edge | Liberal | August 18, 1919 to August 1, 1922 | |||
Sir William Sutherland | Liberal | February 15, 1920 to April 7, 1922 | |||
Sir John Gilmour , Bt | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Thomas Arthur Lewis | Liberal | 4th to 22nd July 1922 | |||
Lord Chancellor | Robert Finlay, 1st Baron Finlay | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Baron Birkenhead | Conservative | from January 10, 1919 | Elevated to Viscount during his tenure | ||
Lord President of the Council | George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston | Conservative | until October 23, 1919 | at the same time Leader of the House of Lords , became Foreign Minister | |
Arthur Balfour | Conservative | from October 23, 1919 | |||
Lord Seal Keeper | David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Andrew Bonar Law | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to March 23, 1921 | also Leader of the House of Commons | ||
Austen Chamberlain | Conservative | from March 23, 1921 | |||
Foreign minister | Arthur Balfour | Conservative | until October 23, 1919 | ||
George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston | Conservative | from October 23, 1919 | also Leader of the House of Lords ; was raised to marquess during his tenure | ||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Lord Robert Cecil | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Cecil Harmsworth | Liberal | from January 10, 1919 | |||
Interior minister | Sir George Cave | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ennobled as Viscount during his tenure | |
Edward Shortt | Liberal | from January 10, 1919 | |||
State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior | William Brace | Labor | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Sir Hamar Greenwood , Bt | Liberal | January 10 to April 29, 1919 | |||
John Baird | Conservative | from April 29, 1919 | became a baronet during his tenure | ||
First Lord of the Admiralty | Sir Edward Carson | Conservative | until July 17, 1917 | ||
Sir Eric Geddes | Conservative | July 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | became minister without portfolio | ||
Walter Long | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | |||
Arthur Lee, Baron Lee of Fareham | Conservative | from February 13, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary and Finance Secretary of State of the Admiralty | Thomas James Macnamara | Liberal | until April 2, 1920 | ||
Sir James Craig , Bt | Conservative | April 2, 1920 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Leopold Stennett Amery | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Additional Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of the Navy | Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton | Conservative | February 7, 1917 to January 27, 1919 | Item abolished | |
Admiralty Civil Lord | Ernest George Pretyman | Conservative | until January 27, 1919 | ||
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton | Conservative | January 27, 1919 to October 26, 1920 | |||
Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow | Conservative | October 26, 1920 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Bolton Eyres-Monsell | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
second civil lord of the Admiralty | Arthur Pease | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | Item abolished | |
Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries | Rowland Prothero | Conservative | until August 15, 1919 | Board of Agriculture and Fisheries became a ministry | |
Arthur Lee, Baron Lee of Fareham | Conservative | August 15, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | |||
Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | Conservative | from February 13, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture | Sir Richard Winfrey | Liberal | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough | Conservative | February 18, 1917 to March 21, 1918 | |||
George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen | Conservative | March 26 to June 18, 1918 | |||
Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton | Conservative | June 18, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | |||
Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | became a minister | ||
Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow | Conservative | from April 5, 1921 | |||
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster | Conservative | from April 7, 1921 | |||
Aviation Minister ( President of the Air Board or President of the Air Council or Secretary of State for Air ) |
Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray | Liberal | January 3 to November 26, 1917 | Air Board becomes Air Council | |
Harold Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere | Liberal | November 26, 1917 to April 26, 1918 | |||
William Weir, Baron Weir | Liberal | April 26, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | Item replaced by the Secretary of State for Air | ||
Winston Churchill | Liberal | January 10, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Frederick Guest | Liberal | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Aviation | John Baird | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ||
JEB Seely | Liberal | January 10 to December 22, 1919 | |||
George Tryon | Conservative | December 22, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | |||
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry | Conservative | April 2, 1920 to July 18, 1921 | |||
Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell | Liberal | from July 18, 1921 | |||
Blockade Minister | Lord Robert Cecil | Conservative | until July 18, 1918 | ||
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans , Bt | Conservative | July 18, 1918 to July 10, 1919 | Item abolished | ||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Blockade | Frederick Leverton Harris | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | Item abolished | |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | Walter Long | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | previously Minister of War | ||
Winston Churchill | Liberal | from February 13, 1921 | previously Minister of War | ||
State Secretary in the Colonial Ministry | Arthur Steel-Maitland | Conservative | until September 26, 1917 | ennobled during his tenure as a baronet | |
William Hewins | Conservative | September 26, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | |||
Leopold Stennett Amery | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | |||
Edward Wood | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Minister of Education | Herbert Fisher | Liberal | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Education | Herbert Lewis | Liberal | |||
Minister for Food Control | Hudson Kearley, Baron Devonport | Liberal | until June 19, 1917 | ||
David Thomas, Baron Rhondda | Liberal | June 19, 1917 to July 3, 1918 | raised to Viscount during his term of office; died in office | ||
John Robert Clynes | Labor | July 9, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | |||
George Henry Roberts | Labor | January 10, 1919 to March 19, 1920 | |||
Charles McCurdy | Liberal | March 19, 1920 to March 31, 1921 | Item abolished | ||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Food Control | Charles Bathurst | Conservative | until July 2, 1917 | ||
John Robert Clynes | Labor | July 2, 1917 to July 9, 1918 | became a minister | ||
Waldorf Astor | Conservative | July 18, 1918 to January 27, 1919 | |||
Charles McCurdy | Liberal | January 27, 1919 to March 19, 1920 | became a minister | ||
Sir William Mitchell-Thomson , Bt | Conservative | April 19, 1920 to March 31, 1921 | Item abolished | ||
President of the Local Government Board | David Thomas, Baron Rhondda | Liberal | until June 19, 1917 | became Minister of Food Control | |
William Hayes Fisher | Conservative | June 28, 1917 to November 4, 1918 | became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Information | ||
Sir Auckland Geddes | Conservative | November 4, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | became Minister for Reconstruction | ||
Christopher Addison | Liberal | January 10 to June 24, 1919 | Local Government Board became the Ministry of Health | ||
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Local Government Board | William Hayes Fisher | Conservative | until June 28, 1917 | became President of the Local Government Board | |
Stephen Walsh | Labor | June 28, 1917 to January 27, 1919 | |||
Waldorf Astor | Conservative | January 27 to June 24, 1919 | Local Government Board became the Ministry of Health | ||
Minister of Health | Christopher Addison | Liberal | June 24, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | became minister without portfolio | |
Sir Alfred Mond , Bt | Liberal | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health | Waldorf Astor | Conservative | June 24, 1919 to April 7, 1921 | inherited the Viscount title in 1919 | |
Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow | Conservative | from April 7, 1921 | |||
Secretary of State for India | Austen Chamberlain | Conservative | until July 17, 1917 | resigned | |
Edwin Samuel Montagu | Liberal | July 17, 1917 to March 19, 1922 | |||
William Peel, Viscount Peel | Conservative | from March 19, 1922 | |||
State Secretary in the Ministry of India | John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington | Liberal | until January 10, 1919 | ||
Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha | Liberal | January 10, 1919 to September 22, 1920 | became governor of Bihar and Orissa | ||
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton | Conservative | September 22, 1920 to March 20, 1922 | became governor of Bengal | ||
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton | Conservative | from March 20, 1922 | |||
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | John French, Viscount French of Ypres | independent | May 6, 1918 to May 2, 1921 | from October 28, 1918 to April 2, 1921 in cabinet rank | |
Chief Secretary for Ireland | Henry Duke | Conservative | until May 5, 1918 | ||
Edward Shortt | Liberal | May 5, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | became Minister of the Interior | ||
Ian Macpherson | Liberal | January 10, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | became Minister of Pensions | ||
Sir Hamar Greenwood , Bt | Liberal | from April 2, 1920 | |||
Vice President of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland | Thomas Russell | Liberal | until January 15, 1919 | ||
Hugh Barrie | Conservative | from January 15, 1919 | |||
Minister of Labor | John Hodge | Labor | until August 17, 1917 | became Minister of Pensions | |
George Henry Roberts | Labor | August 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | became Minister for Food Control | ||
Sir Robert Horne | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to March 19, 1920 | became Minister of Commerce | ||
Thomas James Macnamara | Liberal | from March 19, 1920 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor | William Bridgeman | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | moved to the Ministry of Commerce | |
George Wardle | Labor | January 10, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | |||
Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow , Bt | Conservative | from April 2, 1920 | |||
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Sir Frederick Cawley , Bt | Liberal | until February 10, 1918 | was made a baron | |
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook | Conservative | February 10 to November 4, 1918 | at the same time information minister | ||
William Hayes Fisher | Conservative | November 4, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | at the same time information minister | ||
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | became First Commissioner of Works | ||
William Peel, Viscount Peel | Conservative | April 1, 1921 to March 19, 1922 | became Secretary of State for India | ||
Sir William Sutherland | Liberal | from April 7, 1922 | |||
Information minister | Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook | Conservative | February 10 to November 4, 1918 | also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
William Hayes Fisher | Conservative | November 4, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | at the same time Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; ennobled as a baron; Post abolished on January 10, 1919 | ||
Munitions Minister | Christopher Addison | Liberal | until July 17, 1917 | became Minister for Reconstruction | |
Winston Churchill | Liberal | July 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | became Minister of War | ||
Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to March 21, 1921 | Item abolished | ||
Parliamentary State Secretaries in the Ministry of Munitions | Sir Laming Worthington-Evans | Conservative | until January 30, 1918 | ||
Frederick Kellaway | Liberal | until April 1, 1920 | |||
JEB Seely | Liberal | July 10, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | moved to the Ministry of Aviation | ||
John Baird | Liberal | January 10 to April 29, 1919 | |||
Parliamentary and Finance State Secretary in the Ministry of Munitions | Sir Laming Worthington-Evans , Bt | Conservative | January 30 to July 18, 1918 | became Minister of Blockade | |
James Hope | Conservative | January 27, 1919 to March 31, 1921 | Item abolished | ||
Minister for the National Service | Neville Chamberlain | Conservative | until August 17, 1917 | ||
Sir Auckland Geddes | Conservative | August 17, 1917 to December 19, 1919 | Item abolished | ||
Parliamentary State Secretaries in the Ministry for the National Service | Stephen Walsh | Labor | March 17 to June 28, 1917 | moved to the Local Government Board | |
Cecil Beck | Liberal | June 28, 1917 to December 19, 1919 | Item abolished | ||
William Peel, Viscount Peel | Conservative | April 15, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | switched to the war ministry | ||
Paymaster General | Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett | Liberal | until July 30, 1919 | died in office | |
Sir Tudor Walters | Liberal | from October 26, 1919 | |||
Pension Minister | George Nicoll Barnes | Labor | until August 13, 1917 | became minister without portfolio | |
John Hodge | Labor | August 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | previously Minister of Labor | ||
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans , Bt | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | became minister without portfolio | ||
Ian Macpherson | Liberal | from April 2, 1920 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretaries in the Ministry of Pensions | Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | moved to the Ministry of Agriculture | |
Sir James Craig , Bt | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | moved to the Ministry of Navy | ||
George Tryon | Conservative | from April 2, 1920 | |||
Postmaster General | Albert Illingworth | Liberal | until April 1, 1921 | was ennobled as a baron in 1921 | |
Frederick Kellaway | Liberal | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Assistant Postmaster General | Herbert Pease | Conservative | |||
Minister with no portfolio | Arthur Henderson | Labor | December 10, 1916 to August 12, 1917 | resigned | |
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | Conservative | December 10, 1916 to April 18, 1918 | became Minister of War | ||
Jan Christiaan Smuts | independent | June 22, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | became the South African representative at the Paris Peace Conference | ||
Sir Edward Carson | Conservative | July 17, 1917 to January 21, 1918 | stepped over the question of Home Rule back | ||
George Nicoll Barnes | Labor | August 13, 1917 to January 27, 1920 | resigned | ||
Austen Chamberlain | Conservative | April 18, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | became Chancellor of the Exchequer | ||
Sir Eric Geddes | Conservative | January 10 to May 19, 1919 | became Minister of Transport | ||
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans , Bt | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | became Minister of War | ||
Christopher Addison | Liberal | April 1 to July 14, 1921 | resigned | ||
Minister for Reconstruction | Christopher Addison | Liberal | July 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | became President of the Local Government Board | |
Sir Auckland Geddes | Conservative | January 10 to December 19, 1919 | Item abolished | ||
Scotland Minister | Robert Munro | Liberal | |||
Parliamentary Secretary of State for Health in Scotland | John Pratt | Liberal | from August 8, 1919 | ||
Minister of Shipping | Sir Joseph Maclay , Bt | Liberal | until March 31, 1921 | Item abolished | |
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping | Sir Leo Chiozza Money | Liberal | until December 1918 | resigned | |
Leslie Wilson | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to March 31, 1921 | Item abolished | ||
Minister of Industry and Trade | Sir Albert Stanley | Conservative | until May 26, 1919 | resigned | |
Sir Auckland Geddes | Conservative | May 26, 1919 to March 19, 1920 | became ambassador to the USA | ||
Sir Robert Horne | Conservative | March 19, 1920 to April 1, 1921 | became Chancellor of the Exchequer | ||
Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce | George Henry Roberts | Labor | until August 17, 1917 | became Minister of Labor | |
George Wardle | Labor | August 17, 1917 to January 10, 1919 | moved to the Ministry of Labor | ||
William Bridgeman | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to August 22, 1920 | became State Secretary for Mining | ||
Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame | Conservative | August 22, 1920 to April 1, 1921 | became State Secretary for Foreign Trade | ||
Sir William Mitchell-Thomson , Bt | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
State Secretary for Foreign Trade | Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland , Bt | Conservative | September 14, 1917 to April 29, 1919 | ||
Sir Hamar Greenwood , Bt | Liberal | April 29, 1919 to April 2, 1920 | became Chief Secretary for Ireland | ||
Frederick Kellaway | Liberal | April 2, 1920 to April 1, 1921 | became Postmaster General | ||
Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
State Secretary for Mining | William Bridgeman | Conservative | from August 22, 1920 | ||
Transport Minister | Sir Eric Geddes | Conservative | May 19, 1919 to November 7, 1921 | resigned | |
William Peel, Viscount Peel | Conservative | November 7, 1921 to March 19, 1922 | became Minister of India | ||
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | Conservative | from April 12, 1922 | also First Commissioner of Works | ||
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport | Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams | Liberal | September 23 to November 27, 1919 | resigned | |
Arthur Neal | Liberal | from November 28, 1919 | |||
Minister of War | Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby | Conservative | until April 18, 1918 | became ambassador to France | |
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | Conservative | April 18, 1918 to January 10, 1919 | became colonial minister | ||
Winston Churchill | Liberal | January 10, 1919 to February 13, 1921 | at the same time aviation minister; became colonial minister | ||
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans , Bt | Conservative | from February 13, 1921 | |||
State Secretary in the War Ministry | Ian Macpherson | Liberal | until January 10, 1919 | became Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
William Peel, Viscount Peel | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | ||
Sir Robert Sanders | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Finance Secretary in the War Department | Henry Forster | Conservative | until December 18, 1919 | was ennobled as a baron | |
Sir Archibald Williamson | Liberal | December 18, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | |||
George Frederick Stanley | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Parliamentary Secretary in the War Ministry | James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | Item abolished | |
First Commissioner of Works | Sir Alfred Mond , Bt | Liberal | until April 1, 1921 | became Minister of Health | |
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | from April 7, 1922 in cabinet rank | ||
Attorney General for England and Wales | Sir Frederick Edwin Smith | Conservative | until January 10, 1919 | became Lord Chancellor | |
Sir Gordon Hewart | Liberal | January 10, 1919 to March 6, 1922 | from November 7, 1921 in cabinet rank; became Lord Chief Justice | ||
Sir Ernest Pollock | Conservative | from March 6, 1922 | |||
Solicitor General for England and Wales | Sir Gordon Hewart | Liberal | until January 10, 1919 | became Attorney General | |
Sir Ernest Pollock | Conservative | January 10, 1919 to March 6, 1922 | became Attorney General | ||
Leslie Scott | Conservative | from March 6, 1922 | |||
Lord Advocate | James Clyde | Conservative | until March 25, 1920 | ||
Thomas Morison | Liberal | March 25, 1920 to March 5, 1922 | |||
Charles Murray | Conservative | from March 5, 1922 | |||
Solicitor General for Scotland | Thomas Brash Morison | Liberal | until March 25, 1920 | became Lord Advocate | |
Charles Murray | Conservative | until March 5, 1922 | became Lord Advocate | ||
Andrew Constable | Conservative | March 16 to July 24, 1922 | |||
William Watson | Conservative | from July 24, 1922 | |||
Lord Chancellor of Ireland | Sir Ignatius O'Brien , Bt | Liberal | until June 4, 1918 | ||
Sir James Campbell , Bt | Conservative | June 4, 1918 to June 27, 1921 | |||
Sir John Ross , Bt | Conservative | from June 27, 1921 | |||
Attorney General for Ireland | James O'Connor | Irish nationalist | January 8, 1917 to April 7, 1918 | ||
Arthur Warren Samuels | Conservative | April 7, 1918 to July 6, 1919 | |||
Denis Henry | Conservative | July 6, 1919 to August 5, 1921 | |||
Thomas Watters Brown | Conservative | August 5th to 16th, 1921 | Item subsequently vacant | ||
Solicitor General for Ireland | James Chambers | Conservative | March 19 to September 12, 1917 | ||
Arthur Warren Samuels | Conservative | September 12, 1917 to April 7, 1918 | |||
John Blake Powell | Conservative | April 7 to November 27, 1918 | |||
Denis Henry | Conservative | November 27, 1918 to July 6, 1919 | |||
David Wilson | Conservative | July 6, 1919 to June 12, 1921 | |||
Thomas Watters Brown | Conservative | June 12 to August 5, 1921 | Item subsequently vacant | ||
Lord Steward of the Household | Horace Farquhar, Baron Farquhar | Conservative | |||
Lord Chamberlain of the Household | William Mansfield, Baron Sandhurst | Liberal | until November 2, 1921 | elevated to Viscount on New Year 1917; died in office | |
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl | Conservative | from November 20, 1921 | |||
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Cecil Beck | Liberal | until June 1917 | ||
William Dudley Ward | Liberal | from December 9, 1917 | |||
Master of the Horse | Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield | Liberal | |||
Treasurer of the Household | James Craig | Conservative | until January 22, 1918 | Item subsequently vacant | |
Robert Sanders | Conservative | June 11, 1918 to February 5, 1919 | |||
Bolton Eyres-Monsell | Conservative | February 5, 1919 to April 1, 1921 | |||
George Gibbs | Conservative | from April 1, 1921 | |||
Comptroller of the Household | Sir Edwin Cornwall , Bt | Liberal | until February 28, 1919 | ||
George Frederick Stanley | Conservative | February 28, 1919 to April 7, 1921 | |||
Harry Barnston | Conservative | from April 7, 1921 | |||
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms | Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke | Liberal | at the same time joint Chief Whip of the government in the House of Lords | ||
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield | Conservative | until May 21, 1918 | ||
Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton | Conservative | from May 21, 1918 | at the same time joint Chief Whip of the government in the House of Lords | ||
Lords-in-Waiting | Richard Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell | Liberal | until February 11, 1919 | ||
George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore | Liberal | ||||
John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough | Liberal | until February 28, 1921 | deceased | ||
Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia | Conservative | ||||
Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton | Conservative | until May 18, 1918 | at the same time joint Chief Whip of the government in the House of Lords; became Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | ||
Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton | Conservative | from May 18, 1918 | |||
George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey | Conservative | January 11 to August 17, 1919 | |||
Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford | Conservative | from February 11, 1919 | |||
Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow | Conservative | August 17, 1919 to November 21, 1920 | |||
George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan | Conservative | from November 12, 1920 | |||
George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon | Conservative | from April 4, 1921 |
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